Professor Buffington recently contracted with the University of North Carolina Press to publish: Born under Jim Crow, the West Point, Clay County Mississippi Oral History Narratives. This collection encompasses autobiographical narratives and oral recordings of the lived experiences of Mississippi’s Black male high school students enrolled in the “Negro” segregated public-school systems in the 1960s of West Point, Mississippi. The book introduce readers to the lives of black male youth activists; they were front liners in the struggle, this group of black teen males who opened the community doors so that “the civil rights workers,” could enter the communities.
More information on the book’s progress and release will be shared when it is available.
